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Volume CXIII, edition 6

Since 1949

November 7, 2007

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Patterson to appear before Academic Senate Questions linger about Clinton stop by Carrie Gunter and Joseph Rios Rampage Reporters

Photo by Joseph Rios

Living Culture: Montee Nelson performs a tribal dance at the Powwow Exhibition in the Free Speech Area on Nov 1. An inter-tribal group performed numerous times throughout the afternoon. The Painted Rock Singers provided the drum beat and native songs. See page 3

Honoring

Dead The

FCC students partake in Mexican tradition by Joseph Rios Editor-In-Chief Students honored the dead in the fountain area on Nov 2. The event involved carefully constructed altars with unique treasures, foods, and flowers that the deceased would enjoy. The holiday, “Dia de los Muertos,” is an ancient tradtion practiced heavily in Mexico and carried on by the pious in the United States.

Carnen Hernandez, president of the Club de Espanol, said, “We wanted to show a little of our culture.” At Fresno City College, Spanish classes taught by Nareyda Maroot and Joyce Pinkard put together elaborate altars dedicated to their family members and deceased celebrities. Colorful plates, insense, skulls of purple, flowers of orange, and sugary treats filled the tables. The students placed

Photo by Joseph Rios

photos and items unique to their family member. Mexican folklore explains that the deceased family members return from the dead on this special day to pay their loved ones a visit. The objects placed on the altars are supposed to please the dead when they return. Items placed usually include the person’s favorite food, favorite liquor, cigarettes, and candy. Some place a walkway of flower pedals, cloth, or line them

with candles so that the dead are able to find the altar. If it is cloudy on the Day of the Dead, families burn incense to guide the dead to the altar. Unlike the fountain display, altars are usually placed in the home. However, many Mexican people erect altars at their loved one’s gravesite as well. Maroot’s Spanish five class dedicated their altar to Antonio Aguillar and Pinkard’s devoted their’s to family.

Inside - Special Section

Education is key - page 6

Men: the new women - page 9

Birth control options - page 11

Lust is not love - page 8

Teresa Patterson, Executive Director of Legislative and Public Affairs for State Center Community College District, will address the Fresno City College Academic Senate on Oct 14 to explain the decision to terminate discussions with the coordinators of Hillary Clinton’s camp about the presidential candidate’s potential visit to FCC. “I will share with Academic Senate the information regarding the Ed Code section that prohibits political rallies on campus,” Patterson said in an email interview. “I will also discuss plans to communicate to both internal and external groups what is allowed by law and what is not in terms of political policy.” According to Patterson, Education Code 7054 prevented the college from moving forward with the Clinton campaign. Patterson previously told Rampage reporters the campaign team requested a political rally on campus and she stated a rally was clearly against the law. But former Assembly member, Sarah Reyes, disagrees with Patterson’s interpretation of the Ed code. “I know this Ed Code back and forth, not just this section; show me where rally is an evil word,” said Reyes. “I will challenge [anyone] in that district or in that college. Show me in the Ed Code where “rally” is in there.” Reyes who occupied the position now held by Patterson said, “I used to work at the district, we had rallies,” Reyes said. “We had visitors come that were running for office and we called them rallies, and we never violated the law.” She continued, “How can Bill Stewart, the former chancellor of that district, make it happen and the current administration cannot? “You’ll find no violations in the Ed Code which holds a rally and nothing has ever been challenged,” she stated. Reyes said sections of the See ‘Patterson’ page 4


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